Late yesterday, I got word that Andrew Wakefield — the the anti-vaccine leader who has lost his medical license, drew blood from his child’s friends at a birthday party, headlined a rally with 9/11 Truthers,

If there’s anything I’ve learned in the three years since I began working on The Panic Virus (the book, not the blog), it’s that the manufactroversies about a causal connection between vaccines and autism have